Monday, November 28, 2005

Survived!

I have survived that past 5 days.

Thanksgiving was not too exciting. I had 4 glasses of wine by 3pm and really needed to stop. Other than that and my running apple pie, everything was fine.

I got up Friday morning to get the Arrested Development DVD for my brother at Best Buy. Since I worked the craft fair Sat and Sun, Friday was my only shopping day. I got there at 6:30am grabbed the DVD's and proceeded to the hour long line to pay. Good thing I love to people watch. After that I headed to Target which wasn't as busy as I had expected. Last week I had heard that the Lego Millenium Falcon was going on sale for half off after Thanksgiving so I picked on up last week and went to get a price adjustment Friday. No problem. Walked right up to the returns desk, handed the checker my reciept and got $53 back. She said they were sold out this morning so I was lucky I picked one up early. I felt pretty proud of myself for outsmarting the system, not to mention being one step ahead of my husband who saw the ad and thought it would be a great idea to get one. Little did he know there was already one in the trunk of my car.

Sat I spent 11 hours and Sun- 6 hours at the craft fair. I have decided that this is not worth my time. Tables were $60 and I sold $110 worth of items. Profit= $40= $2/hour. Plus we were required to buy the food they were selling at the fair. I realized that people are looking for WalMart prices and don't realized that time it takes to make items. On my table I had some felted purses ($10-$20), felted gift bags ($5), hand-colored notecards ($1), Make Your Own Playdough Mix ($3) and Reindeer Food (Oatmeal mixed with glitter and confetti for $1). The felted bags were marked at 50% of the prices of last year. I just wanted to sell them. Tons of people commented on how cute they were but I only sold one. I talked to other vendors with the same problem. Bascially, you cannot charge for labor. BS- I am done.

Knitting-wise: Started and finished a hat for my father-in-law, started a herringbone pattern scarf and mini-sweater/boobholder.